From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 0:17:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B72514D4C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:17:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.3.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:19:36 -0700 Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1254.bossig.com [208.26.241.254]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA03444; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <375F6686.A3A9024@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:17:26 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Whitelaw Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on Jaz disk References: <375F54DB.103D10B4@pdsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Whitelaw wrote: > > I've had FreeBSD on a server for about a month, and I really like it. I'm > ready to try it as a workstation. I'm thinking the easiest way to give it a > go for a while without disrupting my current workstation setup (W98 & NT) is > to install it on a Jaz (1GB) disk. > > The system I want to to install on has an Adaptec 2940UW I can run the Jaz > drive off and set the system to boot from it. Will this work? Will FreeBSD > install on removeable media? Are there any non-obvious gotcha's that I should > be aware of? In my opinion, they aren't continuous duty HD's. If they don't go to sleep, they wear out. At least, the drive mechanism did. The media was still good. They are also slow by modern standards. Kent > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > ========================================================================= > Jim Whitelaw tel: +1.780.975.1534 > jim-at-pdsys-dot-com fax: +1.780.484.9239 > Pathways Data Systems Inc. http://www.pdsys.com/ > ========================================================================= > "It is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities > that will send packets designed to have the worst possible effect." > - F.Baker, RFC1812 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message